Speaker Lockhart calls the House into session; Rep. Dean Sanpei to sponsor resolution to investigate Swallow

Friday afternoon, Utah House Speaker Becky Lockhart sent out the call to House members for a July 3, 2013 session to consider a resolution to investigate allegations against Utah Attorney General John Swallow.

Rep. Dean Sanpei of Utah’s 63rd Legislative District

Find the call and the resolution below. In her email to House members, Lockhart was characteristically to the point:

Over the past week, I have been working with Legislative staff preparing for a House session to create an investigative committee. The proposed committee is the will of the people as expressed through their representatives.

Attached you will find:

• the call for a House rules session on July 3 beginning at 10 a.m.

• H.R. 9001. The resolution outlines details for a committee that will investigate allegations against Utah’s Attorney General. The resolution is sponsored by Rules Committee Chairman Dean Sanpei.

The House Rules Committee will hear the resolution in a public meeting on July 3 at 8 a.m.

I appreciate your willingness to fulfill your duties as an elected representative, especially during the holidays. We’ve taken on a task that will be neither pleasant nor easy. But there is no group of people I trust more to find the facts than the House of Representatives.

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Daniel Burton lives in Salt Lake County, Utah, where he practices law by day and everything else by night. You can follow him on his blog PubliusOnline.com where he muses on politics, the law, books and ideas. He is active on social media, Republican politics, and has been named to PoliticIt’s list of the “Top-50 Utah Political Opinion Leaders” on Twitter. You can reach him directly at dan.burton@gmail.com